Rob,

 

I'm running into a similar problem since upgrading to SP1, I'm not getting a huge jump, what is happening is each day my free space drops lower and lower.  What I have figured so far is that it looks like it may be tied to something they did with the system restore function.  The system seems to be saving a larger number of shadow copies (restore points) on my hard drive which is literally eating up all of my hard drive space. 

 

One way to check to see if this is your problem is to go to MY COMPUTER, right click on your C drive and select PROPERTIES.  On the GENERAL tab there will be a button marked DISK CLEANUP, hit that.  After it is done calculating the space it can save a new window pane will pop up.  There should be two tabs in that window, select the tab labeled MORE OPTIONS.  The third partition at the bottom is labeled SYSTEM RESTORE and has an option to CLEAN UP...  Selecting this option will delete all but the most recent restore point, so be sure you are comfortable with that before you proceed.  Once I did that with my machine, it recovered about 20 GB of space which was about right for me at that time.  However, it has NOT actually corrected the problem, I still lose disk space each day, but I now know how to recover the lost space.  I'm assuming there is a setting in SYSTEM RESTORE that limits the number of shadow copies or the amount of space that can be utilized for backups, I just have not discovered it yet.  Hopefully this will at least give you a direction to look into, and if you figure it out, be sure to post back to let me know what to do.

 

Good luck

Do a Disk CleanUp

when files are tagged and before hitting ok.... go to advanced tab and select to delete restore points... confirm and OK..... Once Disk CleanUp finishes you should get back 30-40Gig back

 

 

Peace

 

 

Thanks, i got around 60GB free space.  What i  have  now is  that my Windows Explorer crashes and restarts  often. I had it also yesterday and then i don't guss it's related to this action. I made a checkdsk cause i thought it could be a problem of HDD, but same stuff and my O&O Defrag tells me i have a damaged File System, also after chkdsk /f

Some suggestion? 

ResDirAca is correct, THAT is exactly what I would suggest you do now.

It is great that you have run chkdsk .... if that ran ok, there is great hope for not having too many issues here.

 

Put your Vista DVD in ... reboot.... press F12 and boot from DVD.... when it gives you the warning to press any key to boot from DVD, you must be quick to hit any key, otherwise you will boot into Windows... and must restart again.

 

Once you boot to DVD, go through the prompts, it may appear to you that you are reinstalling ... but fear not..... When you see the message with I think 5 choices, take the one that says repair Windows.

I am assuming this is your first time repairing on this PC, so be prepared for it to take about an hour.  I believe there are 5 steps... the first three will be quick, the fourth step takes longest ... over half hour .... let it do its thing.... once finished, you will reboot into Windows.

 

Try that, if you still have issues... report back so that we can assist you further.

 

Peace

 

 

Been a while since I had a damaged file system but you should be able to repair the file system using the maintenance tools available by booting from the OS disk.  That was the typical way that it was done with previous versions of Windows, I would guess that would be the same with Vista, maybe someone else will chime in who knows a bit more.

Thanks. I used the CHKDSK of Vista, that will run when i boot the PC next time and in fact it takes a while. On each check on O&O Defrag i get the message, that the File  system is corrupted and i have to run chkdsk.

 

My Windows Explorer Problem is solved now. I had a problem with the Free Download Messanger, that i uninstalled now. Maybe something went wrong on my In-Place Upgrade before SP1 install.

 

I don't understand if the repair is needed for the file system or if it's enough to run chkdsk.